Heirlooms are items in WoW that you can use to make the leveling phase easier for secondary characters (alts or alts). There are heirlooms for every class and specialization.
Since leveling was completely overhauled with Shadowlands, the heirlooms also have new effects. iGV tells you where to get them and how to use the new heirlooms correctly.To make your adventures even smoother, Buy WoW Gold to get the resources you need to succeed and fully experience all the content the game has to offer!
Currently, there is the expansion The War Within, for which you need a character at level 70:
Faster Leveling in WoW: Heirlooms for Strong Bonuses
Heirlooms can accompany your alts from level 1 to level 70. However, you first have to invest a lot in the armor pieces and weapons – because you have to upgrade them so that they constantly level up with you.
These are the set bonuses:
- 2 pieces: Recovery consumes 30% slower.
- 3 pieces: Increases regeneration in the outside world, normal dungeons, and battlegrounds when you’re not in combat.
- 5 pieces: When you reach a new level, you deal damage to nearby enemies and gain 40% of your main attribute for 2 minutes. Killing enemies extends this bonus by up to another 2 minutes.
- 6 pieces: Recovery consumes an additional 30% slower.
Recreation can be obtained in cities and inns, and it doubles the experience you gain for killing enemies. It is consumed up to a maximum value. You will benefit longer if you wear heirlooms. You can also generate relaxation while you are offline. Therefore, you should always log out in cities or inns.
Heirlooms up to 70: Upgrading and Costs
Newly purchased heirlooms reach their maximum at level 30 or 29 – from here on they no longer level up with your character. In order for them to serve you well up to level 70, you have to upgrade them. Note that they stop growing with you one level below each level. So the levels for the items end at 29, 34, etc.
Heirlooms can be upgraded up to 6 times. You can get the items to upgrade from:
- Krom Starkarm in the Hall of Researchers in Ironforge (Alliance)
- Estelle Gendry in the Rogue Quarter in Undercity or in Orgrimmar (Horde).
Upgrading heirlooms will cost you a lot of money – much more than just buying the heirlooms, even if the sum has been significantly reduced after much criticism. If you want to upgrade the heirlooms, you pay:
- for upgrades of armor between 500 and 5,000 gold, depending on level.
- for upgrades of weapons between 750 and 7,500 gold, depending on level.
- for a piece of armor, a piece of jewelry or a side hand from 30 to 70 18,500 gold pieces.
- for a weapon from 30 to 70 27,750 gold pieces.
- for a set of five armor pieces and a weapon, 120,250 gold pieces.
You can get all items for upgrading from the heirloom vendors.
How to buy heirlooms
You can get heirlooms from different sources and for different currencies:
- for Darkmoon Faire Winning Tickets at Daenrand Wreath of Light on Darkmoon Island
- for Champion’s Seal on Dame Evniki Kapsalis in the Argent Tournament (requires Exalted status with each race of your faction and the Argent Crusade as well as the achievements to be a champion)
- for Marks of Honor from your faction’s honor merchants in Orgrimmar, Stormwind, or Wintergrasp
- for service medals at merchants in Boralus and Dazar’alor
- for Gold at Guild and Heirloom Vendors
- some heirlooms are also offered by the merchants of the Brawler’s Guild
We only recommend the first three options if you happen to have a lot of the required currencies left over anyway – farming them specifically takes too long. That’s why we’re limiting ourselves to the possibility of buying heirlooms with gold in the guide.
Guild Trader Heirlooms: Parts and Costs
- Headboard: 500 gold pieces, requires friendly reputation
- Cloak: 500 gold pieces, requires friendly reputation
- Pants: 500 gold pieces, requires benevolent reputation with the guild and guild achievement
Even better teamwork
For the Guild Vendor’s Heirlooms, your guild must be level 20. There are tons of level guilds in the Guild Browser that are specifically designed for alts. Often it’s just about leveling up quickly, not about social interaction.
To buy it, you also need reputation with the guild, which you can earn with any character via quests or PvE and PvP in groups with other guild members. So it’s best to buy the equipment with a character who has the reputation and has been in a guild for a long time – ideally in a guild that already has the necessary success.
The guild traders can be found in the cities of your faction and in Shattrath. Just ask a guard where he is, and you’ll get a marker on the map.
Heirlooms at the Heirloom Vendor: Parts and Costs
- Shoulders: 500 gold pieces
- Chest: 500 gold pieces
- Weapons and Shields: Between 500 and 750 gold pieces
You can get the items from your faction’s Heirloom Vendor, Krom Strongarm in Ironforge, or Estelle Gendry in Undercity. After the Battle of the Undercity, Estelle can also be found in Orgrimmar.
To buy these heirlooms, you don’t need reputation or achievements. You can simply buy them and then have them directly in your collection. You can find the locations of both retailers in the gallery above.
Heirloom rings as an alternative to armor
There are also various rings that also count as set bonuses and that level up with you:
- Dread Pirate Ring: available every Sunday through the Stranglethorn Valley Fishing Contest.
- Admiral Taylor’s Loyalty Ring: Agility Ring, obtained through the rare Marine Mission
Bank, always wins
in your Garrison’s Shipyard on Draenor. - Captain Sander’s Lost Ribbon: Strength Ring, obtained through the rare naval mission
Full of Hatred
in the shipyard of your garrison on Draenor. - Signet of the Third Fleet: Intelligence Ring, obtained through the rare naval mission
The Lady of the Sea
in your Garrison’s Shipyard on Draenor.
You can carry any of the Garrison rings together with the Dread Pirate Ring. However, they cannot be combined with each other.
Jewelry and weapons – good, but optional
If you have enough gold left and want to equip your alts in the best possible and comfortable way or just complete the collection, you can also get corresponding weapons and trinkets. However, these only serve the purpose that you always have more or less optimal equipment and for the set bonus.
Since the loot from dungeons is on average above the item level of the heirlooms anyway, you can also fill weapon and jewelry slots with such items. However, you will receive a mount that you can use at level 1 if you have collected 35 heirlooms.1 benutzen könnt, wenn ihr 35 Erbstücke gesammelt habt.
What are heirlooms good for?
The main reason why heirlooms are basically the best
pieces of equipment for alts are the set bonuses you get from them.
Heirlooms also adapt to your level. They are always close to the best items for your current level. Since an adjustment, items you get from dungeons are a few item levels better on the way to maximum level, but the set bonus is extremely useful. And you don’t have to replace them.
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